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"If all we are really focusing on is one sentence in one speech that goes back to 2001 we are in pretty good shape." That is how Savannah Guthrie's unidentified sources at the White House spun day one of the reaction to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination on NBC. CBS' Sandra Hughes actually quoted the sentence in full, the one that inspired Republican Newt Gingrich to dub the judge a "Latina racist woman."
This is the quote that Hughes read: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life." Gingrich's tweeted insight that this was the sentiment of a racist seems unhinged. Yet both CBS' Wyatt Andrews and NBC's Pete Williams lent a semblance of credibility to the former Speaker by misquoting the judge in ways that made her claim sound like a more blatant racial comparison than it was.
NBC's Williams paraphrased Sotomayor as claiming that "a Latina woman's life experiences would more often than not make her a better judge than a white man." Note how Williams turns Sotomayor's "hope" into a certainty; how the Latina is no longer "wise;" how it is no longer her conclusions that are better but her overall capacity to be a "judge;" and how her superiority would be over every white man not just those white men with straitened experience.
For his part, CBS' Andrews rendered Sotomayor this way: "A wise Latina woman can reach a better conclusion than a white man." So Andrews, properly, captured the qualifier "wise" and noted the Sotomayor was talking about superior conclusions not superior judges. He misstated the fact that this was Sotomayor's aspiration not her assertion; he missed the base of the comparison, namely "richness of experiences;" and he overstated her suggested frequency of difference--that it was "more often than not" rather than all the time.
Meanwhile, John Berman covered the enthusiastic response to Sotomayor's nomination from the Hispanics of The Bronx. He sat down with students at her old junior high school for ABC's A Closer Look. Sotomayor, if confirmed, would turn the Supreme Court from 0% to 11% Hispanic; in Congress he noted, that statistic is lower than6%.
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